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10/25/2023 The Dave Allen Show - Sandy Call, Eric Tarr, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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This morning's in a financier ery. Tar is going to join us in the
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second segment of the show, and following that State Democratic Party chair and Delegate
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Mike Pushkin. So here's what I'm thinking, all right, Senator, what
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are you laughing at? I'm loving watching Sandy calls here. Gonna talk to
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her a little bit later on. So Senator Tares in the green room right
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now. Delegate and Chairman Pushkin is going to come in here, and I'm
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gonna try my best to get them both on the air at the same time.
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That be wonderful. I think if they can do that, they'll send
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me over to Israel. You know, they try to get that's the thing.
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If I can get them both, I don't know. I don't I
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don't want to cause any problems, but we're going to try to get them
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on the air. Also, I got to get this in here. The
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seventeenth Annual Trigger Beat over Go Ballpark tomorrow night, a Ti Judy Motors powering
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that as they always do, two sessions, one at six the other at
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seven thirty. Just talking to Leah out front, there are approximately eight tickets
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left, so if you're listening to me right now, you need to come
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to eleven eleven Virginia Street East and Charleston and get those tickets because there are
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eight, literally eight, and it's a free event. Parents don't need tickets,
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but the kids do have to have tickets to get in. That's just
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you know. So we have enough candy to roll around, you know,
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make sure everybody gets something. But by ten thirty eleven o'clock, all the
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tickets are going to be gone. So we're expecting some upwards of three thousand
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kids at Go Martin Ballpark tomorrow night for trick or Beat the seventeenth annual event.
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But again as of airtime about a couple minutes four nine o'clock this twenty
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there were a grand total of eight tickets left. So you better get those
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tickets. You better go see Lee out front in about the next thirty minutes
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or so, because you wait till ten o'clock, they're going to be gone.
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Parents don't need tickets, but the kids do. We's got to have
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a headcount there. So there are about eight tickets left for a trick or
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beat, So get those tickets, all right, that haven't been said.
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Our good friend Sandy Call is here from brid Road Bestro and she comes in
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this morning bearing gifts and the food's not prepared. This morning's inad a box.
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It's your fresh, it's your own soup mix. Talk about that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's our own suit mix. We came out with it
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about four years the drudbstro I didn't mention that by them. Go ahead,
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yeah, and it beat your suit mix. It's right there in your hands
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there and hold it up right here to the micro one hundreds so everybody can
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see. Yeah, there's hundreds recipes. But you know, mainly we uh,
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we serve this in our restaurant every day. We sell it at Kroger
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All in West Virginia Drug and Porium the Tamarack. But you can make potato
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soup, roasted red pepper soup. You can make I'm taking selfies with with
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the I love it. But yeah, it's a great soup mix. I
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have girlfriends out there though that make chicken and dumplings with it. Though I
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make it with the roast. It's a great root. So it's yeah,
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it's gonna say it's not a flavored soup per se. It's not like you're
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I mean, you just whatever flavor you want it to be. Absolutely absolutely.
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I got all the spices and the mixes for you. You just throw
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in your your chopped up potatoes or if you want to make a tomato soup
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or what have you. But it's a great pre mix. What's your favorite
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soup to make with it? What's your favorite one? If you had to
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pick one or two, I would say definitely broccoli cheddar cheese okay, and
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then the loaded potato Okay, that's your favorite. That's the same. That's
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that's the same. Well, what do you hear from other people? What
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are some of the other ones you mentioned a couple of them. They love
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the roasted red pepper bisc and the lobster bisk. Okay, it's pretty popular
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and it's really really cheap to buy. You know, you can get it
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for under five bucks and feed a family of twelve to fourteen, especially if
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you got a little football team or a baseball team you need to feed.
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Yeah, and it's super weather. Well it's not right now because it's going
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to be eighty degrees or but next week. I was looking at the long
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range forecast. I think it's like Wednesday next week the high is going to
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be like forty five. Oh yeah, so this is souper weather. We
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get Halloween behind this, eBrace starts thinking about Thanksgiving in the winter. It's
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soup weather. It's time. And speaking of Thanksgiving, we're doing Thanksgiving dinner
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pickups again this year. Okay, so we're releasing that menu this week and
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order a turkey or a ham, all the fixings on the side. We'll
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have it all prepared for you and you just pick it up the day before
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Thanksgiving. We can serve it cold or warm, however way you want it.
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That we'll make your life on next month. To talk about that,
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too. But let me ask you this about the Thanksgiving though. If somebody
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wants to order Thanksgiving dinner from you guys, what would be the ballpark deadline
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for that? When do you need to know by? Because you can't call
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up nine o'clock to night for Thanksgiving, say I wanted dinner, so well
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you can't, so give me just and we won't hold you to this,
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but a good time frame that would be the deadline for them. I'm going
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to push it to the Saturday before thanks Geting, Saturday before Thanksgiving. How
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many dinners have you done in the past approximately, Well, we did one
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hundred, close to one hundred last year, okay, and the dinners consist
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of well, you kind of have it however you want, right, Yes,
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indeed you can do. If I call you, I say, Sandy,
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I want the full the full dinner. Yeah. Well, you can
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do small or large when we pretend when we talk about small and large,
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you can do four to six folks or eight to ten, eight to twelve,
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So that's your small and your large orders. You can do a large
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turkey dinner, ham dinner, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry relish.
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We're going to do a new corn bread pudding. This year it's a sweet
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corn bread pudding. We got some really nice things coming out, So Chef
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Joshua should have that out to the masses by Friday. And to get all
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this informations available on your social media, your website, you get it all
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out there for people to say, sardbistro dot com all right, indeed,
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Sandy call for Bridge Road Bistros here all right. So I want to talk
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about the private rooms that you have, yes your place for parties and that
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they get together. Talk about those. This is a great topic because a
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lot of folks don't know about our two rooms. We have two rooms.
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One is the Walnut Room. It seats up to about fifty but it's very
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popular with the pharmaceutical companies as well with the you know under ten number.
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But we have the LS room as well that seats up to twenty. Both
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of them have av if we have drop down screens, body of visuals so
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you can do dower points or whatever all the things. Yes, so you
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can even do a photo montage if you want to do a baby shower,
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about bridle shower, a reunion, any kind of nuptials. But those are
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great spaces also for your holiday parties coming up. You know you want a
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neutral place to say, here in central West Virginia, basically you're near all
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the hotels, and Bridgeroad Bistro offers two great rooms for your either luncheon or
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dinner parties for the holiday. Now. I would imagine kind of like with
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the dinner Sandy, that you could go full on. Have you prepare everything
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or do you allow people? Cause some people, some establishments like that will
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let people bring in outside food and some don't. And I understand certainly if
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they don't, what is your policy on that. I definitely definitely cater to
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those rooms. I provide all of the things to the room. Yes,
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you know, if they want to bring in a dessert, let's say a
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birthday cake or a wedding cake or something in that nature, bring that in
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as long as they have enough to share with you and the folks, right
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of course, and then bring you down a piece of exit. There's a
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three piece minimum. You know, you don't have to bring a cake in
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the building. You should put that sign up. All wedding cakes, all
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birthday cakes, there must be at least three to four pieces set aside,
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you know, for the host that's what you're asking about that, and again
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information about that's available on your website social media Facebook. How busy do you
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guys get as we head toward the holiday season, Actually, pretty busy.
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We'll get to the point where will how they lunch a mid afternoon in an
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evening party if need to be. You know, we have a lot of
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professionals that come in they want a nice lunch, and we have do a
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lot of off premise caterings as well. We'll come to your your firm,
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your business, will cater to your folks for lunch. We do box lunches
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as well, but we do so if somebody want to do, like,
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let's say, a lunch and learn and one of those, because that's kind
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of a popular thing to do right now. They just want to have people
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together and they want to have, like you said, a box lunch that
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you can prepare, you can have it to have it right there with with
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with audio visual available too if they need to do a powerpointer. Indeed,
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indeed, yes we do it all. We'll come to you, you can
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come to us. But yeah, it keeps us pretty busy during the holidays.
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Str I can imagine, I can imagine Sandy. It's always a pleasure
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to have you on the show. Gosh, thanks for having so anytime.
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What are you making up there? Just as far as the regular menu,
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if I go up there for dinner tonight, I mean, I know you've
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got a full menu, but anything new on the menu up there, anything
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that you're excited about right now. Chef Joshua is in transition right now from
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his to his autumn menu, so he's a lot of good things in store
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for us. He's going to do a nice smoked mac and cheese and we're
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going to be got that, Ryan, Yeah, smoke mac and cheese.
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Yes. And speaking of that, we're joining the mac and cheese contest that's
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coming up on November the fourth for the children's learning. Is that the one
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that I'm a judge for. Yes, because they reached out to me about
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being a judge on that. Yeah, please be a judge because we were
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knock your socks off mac and cheese and that's over it Capital Mark. Yeah.
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Somebody reached out to me by saying they said, can you come over
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be a judge for a mac and cheese contest? So I've been I've been
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ushered in, you know, for that you're a great guy for that.
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Well, thank you and all the things I liked it. I started eating
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sandy when I was when I was real young, and I just never got
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out of the habit. I get it, I get it. Well,
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you know we're going to help continue that tradition for you. Up and let
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me serve you suffer. Okay. Yeah, I actually got a text a
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minute ago from a good friend of mine who's listening in another part of the
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state right now. The Miracle of radio. We're on apps now and love
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it. And I'm going to give a big shout out to my buddy Tommy,
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who is listening down in southern West Virginia right now, who's probably the
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best non trained cook I've ever met in my entire life. Yeah, tell
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me, come on, let's do some cooking at the b STRO. Buddy
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does a lot of smoking, you know that kind of stuff. I say,
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does a lot of smoking. That didn't sound right, did it?
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Smoking foods? He does? He smoking smokes foods. Okay, Tommy,
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you come up to the Bridge Road b Strow and we'll show you how to
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smoke some things in our smoker as well. All right, Sandy, call
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for the bridge road b Strow website and social media. Go thank you.
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We've got Facebook, TikTok Instagram, a Google TikTok Oh, yes, we
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love TikTok Okay. I gotta get me one of them techtok You need to
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get on TikTok All right, Sandy, we'll talk again soon. We'll definite
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Senator Eric Tarr, Finance Chair Eric Tar, good morning, thank you
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for being on the show. Good morning, thanks for having me on day.
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This has been a wild day in the world of radio. Just had
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Sandy Call on for Bridge Road Bistro up in our studio of our new station,
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New West Station, the Mountain ninety eight seven. Steve Animal was getting
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massages on the air this morning. You're the folks, say station, folks
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from Utopia. I was up there too. Was all I got to do
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is take pictures. But so yeah, it's it's it's you never know what
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you're going to encounter when you come into eleven eleven and I have a giant
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box courtesy of Sandy Call of Bistro soup mix over here. She didn't mix
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it up for she got to make your own. But if you'd like to
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take some soup make it's a good stuff. We'll hook you out. It's
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definitely be good stuff. I saw her back in the green room waiting come
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in. I thought maybe we had some breakfast there. See I brought soup's
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just as good. This is good. This is good. It's it's good
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stuff. And after you, I've got the state Democratic Party chair, Mike
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Pushkin coming in. Well say hi to Mike for well, why don't you
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say hi to be? I haven't seen him it, I'll say that.
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He'll roll in here about two minutes four air time. I want to someone
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you two to say hello to each other. I'm happy to do that,
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all right. I know that Mike is listening right now. So Mike want
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to at least a you know, just at least a little high fiber.
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You know, in western southern West Virginia, we always see how's your mom
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and m that's right, that's your momin m. That's what you boys.
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So we'll be okay, all right. So you came out with a press
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release on Monday. It was entitled when will Enough Be Enough for the People
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of West Virginia? And in it you reference, among other things, the
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recent indictment of one official over the miss handling of COVID funds. So,
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so let's start there. What led to the press release and what was in
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it for people that didn't see it. Well, first of all, you
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know, there's an indictment of Tim Pretty that had to do with the emergency
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management response, and he was over some contracts that had to do with COVID
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testing and the contracts that were awarded were paid for and much greater than what
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testing was provided. And so so that's a way of funnel money and launder
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money into his potentially his own pocket. So that's that's what the indictment was
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about. And it's again just in one of these situations where the governor has
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been absent from being present. You know, there's been lawsuits about the governor
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not being living in the mansion or being president around there being a legislator over
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the past five years up here at the capital. And seeing how little the
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governor's actually present through this whole process and seeing the executive agencies just fall apart.
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It's disheartening because it's a big deal to be governor of West Virginia.
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You know, you would think that would be something that is your absolute number
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one priority. Nothing else matters while you're sitting in that office. That's what
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it should be. The people of Western You deserve that, and that's not
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been the case. What's happens he's you know, he's stuck buddies into these
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positions and left them with no accountability and let agency after agency fall into the
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ground to make national news on how on how terrible they are. Let mean,
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what's happened with state police? What happened to that? Now we've got
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Jack Chambers in there to fix it? And what happens is and this is
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what's been happening. It all falls apart, and then they go pick somebody
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some justice. Then go pick somebody that actually has the qualifications and the integrity
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to go run the organization, someone like a Jack Chambers, like a Jack
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Chambers, you know. And with DHHR, the legislature pushed and pushed and
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pushed and pushed to get rid of Bill Krautch, and he wouldn't do it
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until he absolutely had no choice. And so the legislature then went so farce,
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all right, you know what we're gonna do. We're just gonna go
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in and break up DHHR and make it so where you can go in and
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have somebody who's accountable to a specific expertise within DHHR. And then the governor
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veto's that Bill instead goes and waste a million dollars to bring it a nothing
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burger consulting agency in UH to go and say well, this is what it
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should be, and it pretty much should be the same. So the legislature
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saw that for what it was a waste of a million dollars in lip service,
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and the next time we ran the same legislation, we just ran it
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along in fast enough so that if you veto at this time, we could
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override it. And that's happened in agency after agency after agency. And so
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what I said now titled that when will enough be enough? Is because the
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governor is understandably very popular within West Virginia, because Westvigini's doing fantastic as a
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state as a whole, our economic performance, our growth, the quality of
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life is improving in West Virginia beyond what it's always been a great quality of
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life here, but it's improving even more now. And so as people feel
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that and experience that it's came from the leadership of a great deal that has
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come from the leadership of the Republicans since we've stepped into twenty fifteen, and
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a lot of legislations attracted that kind of growth, and so that gets awarded
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to the governor for that success. But the reality is is that that the
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statressit here and laid all these bills down, and so it gets governor,
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which ones of these do you want to be a governor's bill. He's not
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initiated this stuff on his own. He's taken the credit for it. And
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and for a lot of the people who are will show up to vote,
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they don't really you know, politics is in their life, and I completely
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understand that their blood pressure is probably lower. They probably are better off than
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we are, eric, to be honest with you, but they don't get
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to see the inside of things, and so what they see is the end
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result, and the guy at the head of it understandably gets to take credit
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for that result. But it's only deserved if you're actually present. And so
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the state's doing well in spite of the governor, not because of the governor,
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and his popularity doesn't show that, and so that's when that's hence the
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title of that pressure leaf is one will enough be enough? And you know
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the polls Senator and we're talking with senatorytar By the way, we do have
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a winner of the tickets for the log and Home show. It's Keith south
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Hall. So it congratulates it to Keith Caller three and he's on his way
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to the log Homes show this week at the Kittleseum and Convention said, those
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are will call tickets as we say in the business Keith, So we'll get
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your name and number over to the Cottoseum Convention Center gets you on the list
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for those tickets. Senator, with that being said, what you said about
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the popularity the polls are showing Governor Justice, who wants to be Senator Justice
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as way ahead. He has what some have called an insurmountable lead over Congressman
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Alex Mooney. Just last week he got the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
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Jim Justice has approval ratings of governors still some of the highest in the
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nation. Is it what you said that people are not following this stuff that's
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kind of your assearch and don't want to put words in them out that they're
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just not following it closely that you're saying, it's not the governor that's responsible
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for this, it's the legislature. And how do you and what's your comment
21:45
on Donald Trump endorsing Jim Justice for Senate. So I'll start with the endorsement
21:49
pep for And it's no secret I'm a huge Trump fan. You know,
21:53
the country has done better or was doing better than I'd ever seen it do
21:57
in my time as an adult. Pay attention to how the country does as
22:03
it was under Donald Trump. And even on my Senate floor desk, I've
22:06
got a little figuring that that has a you push a button that has Donald
22:10
Trump speaking that sits on my Senate floor desk. Oh. Yes, if
22:11
you're down there on the Senate floor, you can hit that. And here's
22:14
some of a lot of Trump's one liners. But one of the things that
22:18
is apparent to anybody who's watched the process is that these endorsements such as the
22:23
one that Jim Justice got it, Donald Trump didn't do that for Jim Justice.
22:30
Donald Trump did that for Donald Trump. And so if you look at
22:33
the politics about what's getting ready to happen within the Senate race, Joe Mansions
22:37
not announced whether or not he's going to run for US Senate again or whether
22:40
he'll get the consential race. You know, I think that it was anticipated
22:45
and leaked out that Joe was going to make some sort of announcement this week
22:48
in Charleston, right so ahead of that, very soon as that was leaked,
22:53
are very close to the time that that was leaked, then you saw
22:57
Donald Trump come in and do this endorseth So to me, that's Donald Trump
23:02
trying to influence what Joe Manchin's going to do, because I think that frankly,
23:07
I think Donald Trump would rather have Joe Manchin in the presidential race than
23:11
in the Senate race here because I think that one, Joe's not going to
23:17
win in State of Westernia and US Senate race, and he's not going to
23:22
win the presidential race but as an independent. But what he can do is
23:26
this significantly influence who ends up in the president's seat by the votes that he
23:30
would take, and that's going to have leverage in there to where he could
23:33
go in and I'm sure Joe would end up with some sort of cabinet position
23:36
with the leverage on those votes. So what I think this happened with this
23:40
is that I think that Donald Trump came in and endorsed Jim Justice to influence
23:45
whatever that announcement may be or even if it will happen, in thinking that
23:52
that if Joe steps in the race, he may think he can beat Alex,
23:55
but not think he can beat Jim. Now, the reality is I
24:00
think that out I think I think any given are against Joe Mansion wins the
24:03
race. Yeah, I think that's where we are. I agree so,
24:06
but I think it's it's more of a more challenging probably to do that if
24:12
it's alex in in DC's opinion and then you know the national opinion of it.
24:18
I don't think so so much here because I think it's a primary race
24:22
and you're going to you know, in primary race, you got more Republicans
24:26
who are conservative Republicans showing up to vote for who that's going to be,
24:30
and whoever wins, that's going to win center race. And so if you're
24:33
coming more conservative, you're announce moony vote even though the popularity is so high
24:37
with the governor. I'm going to send it. Financier Ery Tar the Dave
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Pizza dot com. Senator Tara I had someone within state government who was not
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an elected official, but it's a pretty high ranking person at the Capitol tell
24:59
me the other day that regardless of who the next governor of West Virginia is,
25:03
be it Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, Secretary of State, Mac Warner,
25:06
Auto Magnet, Chris Miller, Delegate Moore Capito, or even Steve Williams,
25:11
that they would just be happy to have a more conventional governor come twenty twenty
25:17
five, when the new Governor of West Virginia would take office. Would you
25:19
agree with that statement conventional? Well, I'd have to hear their definition of
25:26
conny. But I tell you what I'd rather see is I would like to
25:30
see somebody who's present. I would like to see somebody who I think that's
25:33
probably what they meant by that, well, and someone who puts West Virginia
25:36
first. It is it is, And by being present, you're demonstrating you're
25:40
willing to put West Virginia first ahead of your businesses or social or your family
25:45
life and those things. Because it's a sacrifice that you make. It really
25:48
is when you step into these offices. That's that when you make this kind
25:52
of commitment to the people who vote for you that office while you're there,
25:56
you do that first. And so we haven't had that out of this governor
26:00
and you see all the things that's happening around his businesses, and when you
26:04
see him having to move a helicopter from here to there to everywhere, like
26:07
somebody's moving their pickup truck try to keep it from getting repossessed. And then
26:12
on top of that, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't
26:15
see the green briar being next. And it can't move the greenbrier, you
26:18
know, so, and that'll be devastating the state of West Virginia. So
26:21
I would like to see somebody who's going to come in and not have all
26:26
that distraction and be an operator. So somebody who comes into the into that
26:30
governor seat, who is present with the legislature, who's there to converse with
26:33
on a regular basis, somebody who's actually got their hands into what's happened in
26:37
operations, and somebody who goes in and puts the expertise at the head of
26:41
the agencies first instead of buddies at the head of the agencies. First,
26:45
you mentioned your support for former President Donald Trump. We had a text about
26:49
that, and I know you don't care to answer this, so I'm going
26:52
to ask you Sistara supports Trump, does he think our vets are suckers and
26:56
losers and does not want to be around disabled vets like Donald Trump. I
27:00
think that anybody, any veteran's ever met me, been close to me,
27:03
knows the answer that question. I'm just incredibly strong support of our veterans.
27:10
And you know, one of my really good friends. It's actually I got
27:11
an I watch or and I watching, and your audience can't see this,
27:15
but I'm gonna show it. I'm gonna show it to you, Daves when
27:17
I turn this over. What's what's on next in our pass code? Again?
27:23
All right, it's picture of you and Donald Trump that Donald I only
27:27
saw. It went off too quick. I didn't get to see it.
27:30
That's Whatdy Williams. Okay, I couldn't see it, so yeah, sorry
27:33
about that. It happens fast, but I was spending around there. So
27:37
one of my really good friends, Okay, I see it now. Yeah,
27:41
I just saw the red tie assumed it was Trump for a long time,
27:45
is Whatdy Williams. And so what he and I have had really good
27:47
relationship over the years prior to his passing, had conversations really about the direction
27:52
the country has headed for long and one of my really really strong mentors on
27:55
my political positions over the years has been Woody Williams. So it's and to
28:00
understand the sacrifice that those guys make and talking about putting service in front of
28:03
anything else that's the ultimate is whatever. But I think what the texture was
28:07
referring to is the comments that Donald Trump has made that had been very disrespectful
28:11
a lot of people's eyes towards veterans. So that it comes back to the
28:15
results our country had. You know, Donald Trump was the first person to
28:18
go up. He said a lot of stupid things. He's done a lot
28:21
of stupid things. Hands down, I mean, nobody's going to argue that,
28:26
but it's also very difficult to argue the situation in our country was moving
28:29
ahead. America was becoming the the the powerhouse in the world again, and
28:36
now without Trump, we are the apologetic laughter, our laughing stock maybe of
28:42
the world. You know, the fact that what's going on with Israel now,
28:47
we just did a resolution supporting Israel with the Senate here the other day,
28:49
and I think every senator i think signed off on that resolution. You
28:52
gotta support that. But when when we send our military over to the sea,
28:56
and China has absolutely no qualms about sending their destroyers right up there after
29:03
ours. It shows that. But they're not afraid anymore, and they should
29:07
be. I mean, America is an incredible powerhouse, and that powerhouse existed
29:14
not just in name only, it existed in effect under Donald Trump and the
29:18
current leadership of this country with Joe Biden or whoever's pulling his strings, has
29:25
made life more dangerous for every citizen of West Virginia. And we need that
29:30
kind of strength back. So irrespective of what he said, that's where we
29:33
were and we're not there now, so we need somebody back in there who
29:37
can do it again. He's proven he can do it, and I said
29:40
it on Hoppy Show one time. I said, you know, they can
29:42
do all this Banana Republic stuff with him all they want. He can end
29:45
up in a prison cell, and I'll vote for him in a prison cell.
29:48
He can. He can imparton himself and get back to business. It's
29:52
in the financiary tarbor. Before we let you go, I want to bring
29:53
it back to West Virginia for a moment. We have a story that was
29:56
posted on the website and that Chris and the team talked about this morning and
30:00
has to do with volunteer fire departments in West Virginia. They've they've suffered,
30:06
you know, a lot. And I wasn't at the Putnam County Commission meeting
30:08
last night, but I did hear some of the audio that we played back
30:11
of the morning news this morning that one of the fire officials over there was
30:15
praising the legislature, specifically you, but also the legislature for some work you
30:22
were able to do to help out the fire departments. Explain what that gentleman
30:25
was talking about. Yeah, So across every industry, everybody has seen decreasing
30:30
workforce and the availability of expertise to workforce, and within our volunteer fire departments
30:34
and even our paid fire departments and our first responders across the board, whether
30:38
it be MS or whether it be police force, they're seeing a few and
30:42
fewer people come into those professions and it's making it more difficult to deliver the
30:47
services that keep our families safe. And it became mission I'll use a Chief
30:52
Smoot's words, it became mission critical in Putnam County because they were going to
30:57
have to reduce their hours to twelve hours a day. So if you lived,
31:02
if you lived in Putnam County and we're serviced by Tay's Valley Fire Department,
31:06
you were going to have fire coverage twelve hours a day. So if
31:08
your house started catch fire after some time between then and then there, you
31:11
might be calling Saint Aubans, you might be calling over from Hurricane or Cable
31:17
County, or you know who knows to try to hopefully can get to somebody
31:19
that's available to come to Putnam County and that that's going on across the state.
31:25
So when as it was getting to that, Chief Smook came to my
31:29
office and he said, hey, he said, here's where we are.
31:32
What can we do to help get this done? So we had had been
31:34
having that discussion as legislature over this past session. The bill, the bill
31:40
that would have significantly improved that situation feil at the very last minute legislative session,
31:45
and so we worked really really hard to get on the call a bill
31:48
that put it twelve million dollars into our fire departments, and it would the
31:52
six million dollars of that is recurring year after year, and had it not
31:55
been for the governor, would have been twelve million dollars a year after year
31:57
going into our volunteer fire departments. So I was really I'm really grateful just
32:05
the way they showed their appreciation. I was happy to lead in that effort.
32:07
But I tell you what, it was a huge team effort amongst the
32:09
Senate and our colleagues in the House. So the financier are tar It's always
32:14
a pleasure to have you on the show. Oh yeah, it's always pleasure
32:16
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up to eight and important issues blessings. According to a Texter, Texas Dave
36:06
very Tar blames the Democrats for the inaptitude of the majority and super majority Republicans
36:10
inability to agree on who they want to lead them, let alone lead the
36:15
state of nation. He's a Trump apologist and in denial that Trump is a
36:17
criminal, deflecting all his shortcomings in Biden, who is actually doing his job,
36:23
says a text. Uh, Texas is ry Tar. Since arey Tar
36:29
speaking, Trump has done a lot of stupid things, so I and you
36:31
should all follow him so we're not the laughing stock of the world. Hate
36:35
to break it to you, area, but Trump made us the laughing stock
36:37
In twenty sixteen, Texas local Republican policies to fund the local fire department.
36:43
The local fire department runs to state Republicans for funding. Is that the correct
36:45
assessment? Mike Pushkin, State Democratic Party Chair, is here right now.
36:51
How are you, man, I'm doing good, good morning. Great to
36:53
see you. Great to see you and Eric tart I ran into Senator Tar
36:58
on the way out and shook hands. I got a picture to prove it.
37:00
I'll post that a little bit later on on on social media. You
37:05
know, Senator Tar doesn't have to he's not on the ballot this year,
37:07
he's in the middle of his term. But I am and that picture could
37:12
could definitely affect my chances in the primary. Yeah, I'm just kidding it.
37:16
It's just a picture. I know, it's just a picture. It's
37:19
just a picture. It's just a picture. Yeah, all right. So
37:22
how are the Jets doing? You know what? Unbelievably well. They considered
37:27
probably one of the toughest schedules to start the season. I mean they they've
37:30
played the Kansas City Chiefs, they beat the Philadelphia Eagles, one of the
37:36
best teams in the league. We beat the Eagles. Anybody that beats the
37:38
Eagles as a friend of mine, and I think we should have beaten the
37:42
Kansas City Chiefs. They had a little help from the refs, as the
37:45
Chiefs usually do. I refer to them as the Kansas City Cheats and the
37:50
Taylor Swift you know things. Well, he can't beat Taylor Swift. So
37:52
but we're three and three after running the gauntlet, and you know, four
37:55
plays into the season, we lost our new Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
38:00
But we're doing unbelievably well. I think we have a good chance.
38:06
We're gonna have a fun season. I think so. All right, all
38:08
right, you want to talk about something that's football, other than the football
38:13
that's coming, other than football, soup and Eric tar. You want to
38:15
talk about something else. So what what do you got for to talk about
38:19
soup? I didn't realize that was one of the options. Uh No,
38:22
this week speaking of soup, we might be serving soup. I haven't checked
38:24
the menu. But this weekend, Saturday evening over at the Charleston Convention Center.
38:32
We always forget what it's called the Charleston Coliseum. Charleston Coliseum and Convention
38:37
Center over the convention center side. The West Virginia Democratic Party is we are
38:43
holding our annual Roosevelt Kennedy Dinner, which is a you know, annual event
38:45
that we have every year to bring Democrats from all over the state together and
38:52
have entertainment, listen to some great speakers, and have a good meal.
38:55
This year, our keynote speaker, who actually just got off the phone with
39:00
is Her name's Anderson Clayton. She's been on national TV. She's had a
39:04
lot of national press written about her. She is the new chair of the
39:08
North Carolina Democratic Party. She's twenty five years old. She's the youngest state
39:13
chair in the country, if ever, I don't know if any other.
39:17
She's a lot longer than you are. She's a lot younger than you are
39:21
too, and and you know, she's just full of energy. She has
39:25
a real passion for what she's doing. And her message is something I think
39:30
is very pertinent to West Virginians, and that is to reach rural America.
39:37
She's from near the where she lives in North Carolina. It's right near the
39:40
North Carolina Virginia border. She's in a very rural part of North Carolina.
39:45
And her message is how we need to do a better job of reaching rural
39:50
voters. And I think that's a message that really resonates in West Virginia.
39:52
By that, she means the state Democratic part the Democratic Party general, needs
39:57
to do a better job of reaching r I want to agree with the voter
40:00
with that. Yeah, yeah, we need to and uh. And so
40:01
she's a great messenger for this and she's really uh, very energetic, and
40:07
she's a great speaker, and it's gonna be a good time. We also
40:08
have musical entertainment. As you know, I love music. I'm a musician,
40:13
and we have the music. The house band for the evening, of
40:15
course, is Charleston's own carpenter ants, who've been around for every Everybody loves
40:21
the carpenter. They're very good at what they do. They're going to be
40:23
joined by West Virginia Music Hall of Famer John Ellison, who's backed by popular
40:30
demand. He's been at our at our event before. John Ellison is uh.
40:32
He's from McDowell County originally, and he is uh. He's a great
40:37
performer. He defies all time and space. Because this guy's like he's like
40:44
eighty years old and he still rocks out like a young kid, and but
40:47
his claim to fame, among other things, is he wrote the song some
40:51
kind of wonderful of course, that was made uh popular by you know,
40:57
Grand Funk, Grand Funk Real Grand Fund did a version know it as of
41:00
about a thousand other people a lot of Grand Funks is probably the standard version,
41:05
but there's been a lot of R and B singers and country singers have
41:07
done It's fanta you ever have you ever done that song? In here?
41:09
Actually last year I got to play it with John Ellison. Well, now
41:14
that's a that's a big deal right there. Yeah, so yeah, So
41:16
John Ellison will be there, and also we have a West Virginia singer,
41:21
songwriter, Andrew Atkins, will also be joining us. I've actually seen Andrew
41:23
Atkin. Andrew is a great guy, a great songwriter, And it's gonna
41:27
be an entertaining, fun and uh evening. And we also have some other
41:31
speakers from elective officials and other party leaders from around the state who will be
41:36
joining us. And I just want to get the word out there that we're
41:38
having this dinner and if you if you would like to attend, I'm not
41:44
talking Dave. You're welcome to wean't talk to your listeners as well. If
41:46
you would like to attend, The tickets are going fast, we are.
41:50
I'm proud to announce that we're almost that capacity here. Really, yeah,
41:53
we're getting Yeah, we're running short on tickets. If you want a ticket,
41:57
I would suggest going to our website today and that's WV Democrats dot com
42:01
and then backslash ark if that's the easiest way to get to the tickets.
42:06
It's backslash ark and that's how you can get a ticket for the event.
42:09
And we'd love to see you there. So So, Mike, I'm kind
42:12
of interested in what the program is going to look like because, and this
42:16
is no fault of yours or any one person. As you said, the
42:22
Democratic Party as a whole, not in West Virginia but nationwide has not done
42:27
a great job of messaging. Sometimes You've even admitted that on the show.
42:30
So, I mean, anytime you have an event like this, it's kind
42:35
of a celebratory thing. You know, you get up and you say,
42:37
well, this is what we did and this is what we're going to do
42:38
whatever. Not been a good couple of years for the Democratic Party, you
42:44
know, long before you took over, I mean going back ten years or
42:46
more in West Virginia. So you highlight the positives. I mean, there
42:50
haven't been a whole heck of a lot as far as getting people in office.
42:52
But what do you say. I think we highlight the need for us
42:55
to come together, stay united, get great candidates on the ballot, and
43:01
give the voters options up and down the ballot of people who are reasonable that
43:07
we could put in public office for the right reasons, because they want to
43:10
serve the public, and because they're able to actually get the job of governing
43:15
done. I mean, if you look at the at the national news right
43:20
now, the Republicans are making it clear that they don't know how to govern.
43:24
It's we do not have a speak Can you ever remember in our lifetime
43:28
we didn't have a We don't have a speaker. It's a crap show.
43:30
What's going on in DC is a crap show right now. And I'm stating
43:32
that I don't see them. I don't see it. I don't see them
43:36
coming to an agreement anytime soon because their party has been and the Republican Party
43:40
has been has been taken over by a very very extreme element that answers to
43:47
one person, one person who's in court right now, and if he doesn't,
43:52
if the if they're candidate for speaker, if their nominee for speaker doesn't
43:57
deny the election results of twenty twenty, they're not going to get him or
44:01
or a good part of his people, which we could call what I think
44:06
McCarthy called the Crazy Eight. And that's enough. They have such a slim
44:09
margin that that's enough to hold the Congress and the entire nation hostage right now.
44:15
And we have, you know, so many things going on all over
44:17
the world, whether it's Ukraine or what's going on in the Middle East,
44:21
and we need to have a strong united front here and we don't because the
44:25
Republicans and Congress can't get their act together. So, yeah, we have
44:30
a lot to talk about on Saturday Night. We're a party that actually,
44:34
even though it's been tough for us here in West Virginia as of late,
44:37
well, we think we can do a better job. In fact, we
44:39
know we can do a better job. Is all you need to look at
44:42
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44:45
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delicate. Mike Pushkin this here, Mike. You know you and I like
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to kid and joke a lot. But last time you were on the show,
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we talked about the crisis in Israel. It's a couple of days removed
47:57
now it's obviously not getting any any better over there. The President, President
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Joe Biden, made an appearance been a visit to Israel, certainly a dangerous
48:07
situation last week. Your thoughts on the President's visit to Israel last week.
48:10
I think that President Biden is doing a very good job as our head of
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state, as our commander in chief right now. When he went over there
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and spoke to the situation, and I think he's been very strong. Of
48:24
course that the United States has always stood with our greatest ally in the region,
48:30
and that's Israel. But also you stress the need for humanitarian aid and
48:36
to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis as well, and they're also currently you know,
48:42
negotiating for the release of hostages, not just not just our American hostages,
48:45
but Israeli hostages as well. What do you make of around the country
48:51
And I've talked about a little mike on some of the college campus, particularly
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Harvard and others and some of the larger cities that there have been protests protesting
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what has happened over there and taking the side of believe it or not,
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Hamas well, what do you make of that? Because it's it's primarily a
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liberal, progressive folks that are doing this, and people point out and say
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I saw one sign that said like queers for Hamas and that lifestyle would not
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be tolerated in that faror by Hamas. What do you make of all that?
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Well, it's confusion or first of all, I mean, I'm pretty
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much a free speech absolutist, Okay. I believe in our constitution. I
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believe in our Bill of rights, people have the right to state their opinion
49:37
as long as they're not harming anybody else. I think people have the right
49:40
to be wrong. And I mean you just had Senator Eric Tarr, He's
49:45
I believe he's wrong all the time, but that's his right. Uh,
49:47
it didn't last the handshake didn't last long, but go ahead. But no,
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it's I think a lot of people don't completely It's a very very complicated
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situation that a lot of people don't understand all the nuances of it. But
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I don't think anybody could. I don't see how anybody in their right mind
50:06
could take the side of a terrorist organization, especially with what happened on Saturday,
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October seventh. It was a horrible, horrible sneak attack by a terrorist
50:17
organization, and they put a lot of people's lives in jeopardy with that action.
50:22
You know, Israel pulled out of Gaza almost twenty years ago, right
50:29
and not long after that, Hamas a terrorist organization, put itself in power
50:35
as and that's who is who and for lack of better terms, because they
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don't really govern, but that's who controls that area and cannot live next door
50:46
to a terrorist organization who's whose stated goal is to kill you tech, says
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ask Pushkin. If you believes Israel should eliminate Hamas, Hamas is a terrorist
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organization, they should be eliminated, just like I was. Eliminated. I'll
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throw this out there anytime that people want to know what exactly you're dealing with
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over there. And I read this report a couple of days ago. There
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was a grandmother that was on her phone when the attacks happened, and she
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was trying to communicate with her family elsewhere and tell them what was going on.
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This one guy wasn't a group. It was one guy came into her
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home, Mike took her phone, murdered her, not just shot her,
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I mean murdered her, mutilated her, and filmed the entire thing on Facebook
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and put it out. Now obviously it's been taken down since then. This
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is what you're dealing with with these people. Yeah, it's sick there,
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terrorist organization. They can't be described as anything other than that. That's what
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they're dealing with over there. And I think a lot of people can't because
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of how we live over here. They can't really get a real perspective of
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that. It's hard for them to understand what go is going on over there
51:53
on a day to day basis. And of course, you know what,
51:57
my heart goes out. I don't want to see anybody. I don't want
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to see any innocent people harmed, and I hope that that that's kept to
52:07
a complete minimum, but it's you know, they're in a in a no
52:09
win situation over there right now. I just pray for everybody involved. Dave
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